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You can now get daily emails with our calendar entries. Sign up. On March 1, , Idaho amended its anti-miscegenation law to include additional restrictions on interracial marriage. Idaho passed its first anti-miscegenation law in , which banned marriage between a white person and "any person of African descent, Indian or Chinese. The anti-miscegenation law was amended in to increase the range of fines and the maximum possible prison time to 10 years.

Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different races or racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States , Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. In interracial marriage was forbidden by law in 31 U. Virginia , which ruled that race-based restrictions on marriages, such as the anti-miscegenation law in the state of Virginia , violated the Equal Protection Clause adopted in of the United States Constitution. Many jurisdictions have had regulations banning or restricting not just interracial marriage but also interracial sexual relations, including Germany during the Nazi period, South Africa under apartheid , and many states in the United States prior to a Supreme Court decision.

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On June 12, , the Supreme Court issued its Loving v. Virginia decision, which struck down laws that banned marriages between people of different races as unconstitutional. Here is a brief recap of this landmark civil rights case. As of , 16 states had still not repealed anti-miscegenation laws that forbid such marriages. Mildred and Richard Loving were residents of one such state, Virginia.